i'm shocked that people attempt to transfer responsbility for their own problems... Good thing nobody on this board would ever do such a weak-willed thing... We really should all get together and teach the rest of the world how to live.

i don't understand your point... other than your usual play at feeling smug and superior.

Semantics aside, inner demons or coping mechanisms are the result of using a drug to escape from something in their lives. Whether they are deflecting blame or not it's irrelevant. Smokers aren't using tobacco to release themselves from those burdens. It's simply a bad habit, however severe you want to make it.

I've been smoking for 17 years now. I come up with excuses for why I keep smoking but it's not easing any kind of a pain for me, nor has it ever.

i'm shocked that people attempt to transfer responsbility for their own problems... Good thing nobody on this board would ever do such a weak-willed thing... We really should all get together and teach the rest of the world how to live.

i don't understand your point... other than your usual play at feeling smug and superior.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

Sydney J Harris

As far as me being smug and superior...that's just your interpretation. I certainly don't feel that way.

Semantics aside, inner demons or coping mechanisms are the result of using a drug to escape from something in their lives. Whether they are deflecting blame or not it's irrelevant. Smokers aren't using tobacco to release themselves from those burdens. It's simply a bad habit, however severe you want to make it.

I've been smoking for 17 years now. I come up with excuses for why I keep smoking but it's not easing any kind of a pain for me, nor has it ever.

So you're saying that because it doesn't get you high, the addiction and side effects don't count?

Seems to me using that logic cigarettes should be illegal long before drugs are.

Hey, as long as it doesn't make you feel good, go kill yourself slowly.